Spring Sale: Get 1 Year, Save 58%

Alix Wall

Alix Wall is an Oakland-based freelance writer and personal chef. Her last piece for Salon was exactly 13 years ago.

Advertisement:

(<a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/gallery-447040p1.html'>robtek</a>, <a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/gallery-284044p1.html'>Picsfive</a> via <a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/'>Shutterstock</a>/Salon)

He made me his drug mule

Alix Wall

The number that will outlive my grandfather

Alix Wall